Alleyne denies killing wife

After discovering his murdered wife in their Framingham apartment and fearing that police would zero in on him as the prime suspect, Kyle Alleyne said he wrapped up her body, offered a farewell prayer and took off to Mexico.

After discovering his murdered wife in their Framingham apartment and fearing that police would zero in on him as the prime suspect, Kyle Alleyne said he wrapped up her body, offered a farewell prayer and took off to Mexico.

Taking the witness stand in his own defense Tuesday, Alleyne, 27, told a Middlesex Superior Court jury he did not kill Heather Alleyne in August 2010.

Alleyne outlined for jurors the events that led up to Aug. 5, 2010, the day he discovered his 19-year-old wife's body in their 1325 Worcester Road apartment.

The night before, he said he left the apartment after an argument, got drunk and passed out and didn't return home until early the next morning when he made the horrifying discovery.

"My hand was on her leg and it was cold, ice cold," said Alleyne. "I went into the living room and started vomiting and I was shaking."

Alleyne said his immediate thought was to call 911. However, he couldn't find his phone at first, and then, he told the jury of 10 men and six women, he had another thought.

"I started thinking, considering all of the circumstances that led up to this, it didn't take long for me to see how it looked," he said

Alleyne said he knew he would be the prime suspect because the couple on Aug. 2 had found out for certain that he did not father the daughter that Heather Alleyne gave birth to on July 23. Authorities contend that Kyle Alleyne was angry that the baby's father is Joshua Elinoff, a man with whom Heather Alleyne had a relationship when she and Kyle Alleyne had separated in October 2010.

"I knew I had to get as far away as I could," said Alleyne. "There was no way anyone would believe it was anybody but me. I knew how it looked and I had to get as far away as possible."

Alleyne said he called the Cuban consulate in Washington D.C. Because he is a member of the Communist Party, he said he hoped they would grant him asylum.

But Alleyne said he realized he could not leave his wife's body in the condition it was in. He said he decided to have a private ceremony to say goodbye before he went on the run.

He said he wrapped her in her favorite blanket and then brought items into the room, such as a computer monitor, that were things that she enjoyed in life. He compared it to burials in ancient Egypt when those who died were buried with some of their favorite things to bring to the afterlife.

Alleyne said he also wrapped Heather Alleyne's body in a sleeping bag to act as a makeshift casket, before he left with his daughter, Karlah Marxine, and went to the Best Western hotel on Rte. 9 on Aug. 6.

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When Heather Alleyne's mother, Virginia Marcheterre, showed up to the apartment on Aug. 6, prior to him leaving, he said he was going to tell her what happened.

"I was trying to find the words, but I couldn't tell her," he said.

He also went for a ride with Elinoff whom he believed had actually murdered Heather. He told jurors he wanted to get "a read" on him to see if he was responsible. Instead, he said it left him not knowing if he was responsible. He admitted to punching Elinoff in the face because he was still angry.

That night, after the toddler was taken from him because he was drunk, he boarded a bus in Boston to go to Texas, but missed his connection in Atlanta, Ga. He eventually made it to Texas, and then Mexico, before being arrested on Aug. 14, 2010, trying to come back to Texas.

Alleyne said he continued lying to police because he didn't think they would believe him.

Asked directly by Michael Bourbeau, his own lawyer, if he killed Heather Alleyne, Kyle Alleyne said "absolutely not."

Alleyne responded to his own lawyer in subdued tones, but when questioned by prosecutor Joe Gentile, Alleyne frequently raised his voice, spoke angrily and expressed frustration with the questions he was asked.

Gentile asked repeated questions about Alleyne discovering his wife's body, particularly about him not noticing blood in the apartment, or wounds to his wife's face.

"You're saying you didn't notice any blood," Gentile asked.

Alleyne responded, "I just told you 30 times, no."

Alleyne told Gentile that he had trouble remembering details and the order things happened. He admitted his actions may not have been the best course of action.

"Nothing that I did after finding her body, nothing makes sense to me or for anyone," he said.

Gentile asked what Alleyne hoped to accomplish when he went with Elinoff on Aug. 6. Alleyne said he was hoping to somehow get a confession.

"I may have taken the matter into my own hands," said Alleyne. "My duty, my obligation, was to take revenge for my wife," he said.

Alleyne said he and his wife had a "fantastic" relationship. Yet, Gentile asked, even with that seemingly great relationship, Alleyne told every police officer who spoke to him on Aug. 6 and after that his wife was "out whoring around," on Aug. 6, and she was still alive that day.

"I wish I didn't say that," Alleyne said. "She was a saint."

During his testimony, Alleyne said he was not angry with his wife and Elinoff because of the relationship. He said his Marxist beliefs make him think a traditional western marriage does not work. Alleyne said he and his wife had decided to give the baby fathered by Elinoff, later named Nevaeh, up for adoptioin, but Elinoff wanted the baby.

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Elinoff's mother has custody of the child.

Alleyne said he considers himself "one of the most sincere people I ever met," but admitted to repeatedly lying to police.

He said he did not have a good relationship with police because once they decide someone is a "scumbag," they don't care about anything else. He described police to Gentile as "pigs," "neo-fascist drones," and "first line of the bourgeois" " who have "committed treason against the working class."

"The average police officer I don't trust to have the ability tell the truth from a lie," Alleyne said.

Both sides rested their cases on Tuesday, although it is possible Gentile could call a rebuttal witness today. Closing arguments are expected today.

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